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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise.
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The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one’s preparation for it.
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Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only...
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A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic...
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A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And...
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Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better...
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It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe Europe will be...
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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble....
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“Only a novel”… in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of...